Hey, guys!! I haven't really been on here since...APRIL?!? wow. Boy a lot's happened since then. Where to begin?

Well, I'm glad to report that I AM NO LONGER 14 YEARS OLD ANYMORE!!! yup, my birthday was on June 15! I had my party the day we got off of school (it was after school, of course) I spent most of the night before making the cake (I made a really yummy vegan carrot cake) and I had some friends over (like Savannah, Kalissa, Alina, Emma, Deven, and Megan) then we all walked over to the movie theater and we saw the movie "UP" (it was really good! I cried at like 4 different parts during the movie. Tori and Aiko showed up a little while after we got to the theater) A few days after that I invited Megan over to my house again (mainly because I felt that she felt kinda left out so I wanted to make it up to her) We played a little volleyball in our backyard, chatted for a while, then we watched the movie "Night at the Museum" I think she had a good time. It felt good to finally be able to talk to her again.

Not much else happened in June. Now, going into this month. Marching band has started up again. I marched with my school marching band in the 4th of July parade. I think it was both better and worse than last year. Worse because our rehearsal seemed so much LONGER than last year (even though we got out an hour early so we could pick up our attire if we ordered any), plus I already knew all this stuff and they kept going over the same things OVER and OVER and OVER again. >_> It was also worse this year because the band wasn't NEARLY as balanced as last year. We only had 3 flutes (that's INCLUDING me), 2 Saxophones, and pretty much a whole ARMY of trombones!! And, worse because on the day of the parade it was raining ALL DAY LONG (I didn't even bring my glasses because I thought it would be nice and SUNNY all day long so I only had my sunglasses with me, which I never needed, so I couldn't SEE the entire time) But it was better this year because I knew a WHOLE bunch more people than last year so I think overall I had a better time (I was hanging out with Delaney, Amy and Mariel most of the time ^^ ) Later that day my cousin and his parents came over from Ohio to stay at our house (I was SUPER excited about that because they're my favorite branch of relatives because they're all just super fun) We went to see fireworks that evening (the BEST EVER, I must say) The next few days were spent cleaning up the entire house for my brother's graduation open house. (It was ok, but nothing much happened. The people there were pretty much talking to my mom the entire time. I think there was more FOOD than guests there that night) But, a couple days before that, I went to the Mall of America with my cousin and my uncle. I got a pair of really neat shoes there for like $20. Not kidding. I also had our first full Marching Band rehearsal. I swear, our show name is so DUMB. The music is cool (it's King Kong music, why WOULDN'T it be cool???), but WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU CALL OUR SHOW "ISLAND????????" (I blame it all on Mr. Berggren. He's the idiot in charge of making all of this crazy stuff up) YOU COULD HAVE AT LEAST GIVEN OUR SHOW A LESS CHEESY NAME LIKE "ISOLATION" OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT!!! Anyway, the day after my brother's party, we drove out to Elk River for a family reunion. They've got a HUGE trampoline there, a really nice boat, and LOTS AND LOTS OF FOOD!! I spent the majority of my time on the trampoline, but later on (after I had 2 heaping plate fulls of food) I went tubing with my cousin. IT WAS SO INCREDIBLY AWESOME!!!!!!!!! I've never gone tubing before until then! (oh, now that I think of it, that was just yesterday )

Well, I guess that just about wraps things up. (whew...glad I let all of that stuff out....wait! I almost forgot!!) I just recently got back into that old game Mario 64 (does anybody remember that game??) I've got like over 40 stars and I haven't even gone into the room with the second Bowser yet!
Oh, and also I just recently started reading the manga series "Vampire Knight" I saw that series of books in the Barnes and Noble at the Mall when I was there with my uncle and I thought it was kind of interesting, but instead of just buying one or two of the books, I looked it up online and started reading it there (I was actually being smart for once!!) I REALLY like it. (I'm only on Chapter 24 though. I'm not very far...) Has anyone else read that series??


ok, THAT wraps things up now. I'm sure of it. I can't think of ANYTHING else that I could possibly put up here that would be worth reading (if you call all that crap up there WORTH READING. I just wasted like 20 minutes of your life by putting all of this crap up here!!) Anyway, I'd better let you get back to...whatever it wass that you were doing before you were dragged in here. bye-bye!!